Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

El-Sayed gaining in the Mich Senate race is emblematic of the Dem Party at-large on Israel. There's really no divide on Israel with Dem voters. Dramatic shifts to basically uniformly negative. Israel's net favorable is -54 pts or worse with young, old, liberal & moderate Dems.

CNN's chief data guy Harry Enten saying on cable television that there is "no divide" on Israel among Democratic voters anymore because Democratic voters are uniformly negative on Israel.

someone is holding an acorn woodpecker. the woodpecker looks nonplussed

they are like mischief incarnate, look!

Another Fed paper finds Americans paid almost all Trump's 2025 tariffs ("pass-through of realized tariffs into import prices was close to one hundred percent"), AND that local labor market effects were "economically negligible."

All pain, no gain. www.richmondfed.org/publications...

If the war resumes, Iran will use missiles that were BUILT JUST THIS MONTH.

They can't stop Iran's missile-building capabilities.

If the war resumes, it will become GLOBAL this time.

- Senior Iranian commander Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi.-Iranian Press TV

There’s always the Oregon Trail.

As a grad student and early-career researcher, I got a lot of grief for studying what I did. "Rebecca isn't serious," they said. "She studies restaurants." And here they are, the barometer of public health, safety, and democratic norms.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

"High-speed rail in the US is unrealistic"

To me, this is blueskyism

GIBBY HAYNES We used to go into the Banshees’ dressing room and take the Gouda off their deli tray so that we could say we stole Siouxsie and the band’s cheese. It’s a pun—the highest form of humor.

The Butthole Surfers are culture

MrBeast with a rope around his neck attached to a mine "Tied to A Mine in the Strait of Hormuz!"

MrBeast (Series, 2015 - )

"... all for nothing more than co-signing an op-ed advocating for Palestinian rights"

A national disgrace.

It sure is!

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

The screenshots in the header image don't do it justice. The unique procedural posture is one thing. The justices discussing what they've seen on TV, how they worry the plan will be too expensive, etc., shows that they really are just politicians in robes.

The TL;DR is that recently-leaked internal memos from 2016 reveal that John Roberts and the court's conservatives invented the shadow docket because of nakedly ideological opposition to Obama's Clean Power Plan.

An ad for a cigarette case in the shape of a pistol. you open up the case by pulling the trigger. The Sincere Company was a maker of novelties for pranks like this, which offer an exciting opportunity for getting yourself killed

Sincere Company, 1927

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

Jim Starkey, inventor of BLOBs:

'For the trivia inclined: Blob don't stand for nothin'. It isn't an acronym for "basic large object" or "binary large object". A blob is the thing that ate Cincinnatti, Cleveland, or whatever.'

cvalde.net/misc/blob_tr...

Introducing the UK Swear Map with the University of Sheffield! Help us map regional swearing—add your unique voice to the project. Share your local words and see the nation’s swear landscape come alive. Contribute now: tinyurl.com/swearmap

Hadn’t been clothes shopping for a dog’s age, so bit the bullet.

ME: This is kinda cute…
CARE INSTRUCTIONS: Hand wash, lay flat to dry in shade, do not leave in direct sunlight, do not dry clean.
ME: This is not a shirt, it’s a mogwai.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

It is because chihuahua brain does not fit inside chihuahua head

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

I truly hate when little Right Wing Hitler youth open their mouths and give opinions in their over sized fake glasses, that they think will make them seem smart ,on things they know nothing about.

But listen to a real farmer rip her apart.

When your father is a professor and your mom directed Salaam Bombay

And there it is....

Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records

Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).